Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a former Methodist churchman named J. B. Matthews made the charge that U.S. Protestant ministers "are the largest single group supporting" Communism in the U.S. (TIME, July 13), he was hit by thunderbolts of protest. They forced him to resign as executive director of Joe McCarthy's Senate...
JOHN H. SCHUTZ Milwaukee Sir: Some one should advise J. B. Matthews that the countries most liberally Protestant are the least Communistic - Canada, England, Scotland, U.S. - and the countries most Catholic are the most Communistic - France, Italy, the Balkans . . .
The greatest bulwark against Communism in this country is precisely that kind of political liberalism found in the Protestant Church and which Mr. Matthews fears.
The trouble about gifted men is that they can never escape their gifts. Hilaire Belloc was gifted, and though he wrote millions of words of prose, scored thousands of arguments, everything finally was resolved in rhyme, which was his gift. Nothing in his histories, noted for their dogged Catholicism, is...
McCarthy managed to make a spectacular brawl of it, even though Doctor Matthews had made himself virtually indefensible by charging, in the American Mercury, that "the largest single group supporting the Communist apparatus in the U.S. today is composed of Protestant clergymen" (TIME, July 13). A longtime McCarthy collaborator, Matthews...